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  Opinion | Why Labor’s Share of Wealth Is Shrinking Sept. 7, 2026 Credit... Millie von Platen By Brent Neiman Mr. Neiman is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Workers are earning a smaller and smaller share of the economy’s income. Their cut — referred to by economists as “the labor share” — has been falling for decades. And it’s getting worse. During the past few years, it declined at a rapid clip and is now at its lowest level on record — about 53 percent of income, down from about 65 percent after World War II. Many policymakers blame industry consolidation and corporate greed for keeping a lid on workers’ compensation. Sure enough, there are now only three large wireless companies and four major airlines; Google dominates search. Corporate profits as a share of G.D.P. just reached a record high. When the share of income paid to capital — interest, rent, profits and dividends — rises, the labor share necessarily falls. Given that diagnosis, the prescription ...
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  Trump is giving Putin reasons to test Nato  Financial Times Europe 7 Sep 2026 The writer is a scholar at the Brook ings Insti tu tion and former senior US National Secur ity Coun cil offi cial Philip Gor don  There have been con flict ing reports of the reas ons behind CIA dir ector John Ratcliffe’s unusual trip to Moscow two weeks ago. Some sug gest his pur pose was to warn Vladi mir Putin not to attack Nato ter rit ory, amid recent intel li gence leaks that Rus sia was con sid er ing test ing the alli ance’s resolve. Oth ers say that he went to share his assess ment that Rus sia’s war against Ukraine is going badly and to urge Moscow to cut a deal. Still oth ers point to the pos sib il ity that Ratcliffe went to press Rus sia to cut off sup port for Iran. The truth may be some com bin a tion of the three. If so, it would be a wel come excep tion to the admin is tra tion’s tend ency to refrain from put ting pres sure on Moscow, des pite its ongo ing attacks on Ukraine ...
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  Why a US debt binge is start­ing to mat­ter Financial Times Europe 7 Sep 2026 Ruchir Sharma The writer is chair of Rock e fe ler Interna- tional. His latest book is ‘What Went Wrong With Cap it al ism’  Dooms day warn ings about Amer ica’s rising debt date to the 1970s, when the US gov ern ment began run ning per sist ent budget defi cits. Late in the next dec ade, a wor ried New York real estate developer placed the “national debt clock” in Times Square. None of the warn ings mater i al ised, so like the boy who cried wolf, they became back ground noise, easy to ignore. Now, as in the fable, the wolf is approach ing the door. Run away debt is start ing to mat ter, trig ger ing a global sell-off in gov ern ment bonds last month. And the first mater ial impact could be that higher interest rates on US bonds short-cir cuit the AI boom. Going back 300 years, every major bubble ended only when bor row ing costs rose sig ni fic antly for the com pan ies at its core, includ ing th...
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  La Cina isolata al G20: perché è finita sotto 19 a 1 (e perché è importante) 6 settembre 2026, 16:33 - Aggiornata il 6 settembre 2026 , 19:50 Ascolta l'articolo 10 min i Donald Trump spinge il resto del mondo verso la Cina. Xi Jinping, al contrario, ama presentarsi come il difensore della globalizzazione, del libero commercio e del multilateralismo Questo articolo è tratto da Global, la newsletter del Corriere della Sera curata da Federico Rampini. ( Qui per iscriversi ) Siamo abituati da anni a una narrazione quasi opposta. È l’America che si isola.  È Washington che irrita gli alleati con i dazi, le sanzioni, l’extraterritorialità del dollaro , il protezionismo tecnologico. Più gli insulti, le minacce, le offese e tutto il resto. È così che Donald Trump spinge il resto del mondo verso la Cina, sentiamo dire da tempo. Xi Jinping, al contrario, ama presentarsi come il difensore della globalizzazione, del libero commercio e del multilateralismo;  il leader capace di racc...
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  Home Search Search Sections Share Commentary Could the right-wing extremist AfD govern a German state for the first time? Mathilda Silbiger  and  Constanze Stelzenmüller September 4, 2026 As voters in the east German state of  Saxony-Anhalt head to the polls on September 6, the far-right Alternative for Germany is within reach of governing a state for the first time.  The AfD is pursuing a sweeping radical agenda in eastern state elections this month, but its real ambitions are national. Even if Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats form a multiparty coalition to deny the AfD power and govern Saxony-Anhalt, they have yet to find an answer to the rising far-right nationalist sentiment in Germany.  9 min read Order from Chaos Read more from Order from Chaos Follow the authors Constanze Stelzenmüller   On September 6, the 2.1 million citizens of the small eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt could set off a political earthquake with reverbera...
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